Fall Flower Garden: Growing Pansies Is A Good Idea

Fall flower gardens can be made to look especially more colorful and bright and it only requires planting of pansies to achieve the desired look. Pansies as everyone knows provide a lot of color and so are ideally suited for including in a fall flower garden. In fact, if you happen to live where the weather is on the warmer side then planting pansies can prove to be the best option because you can expect them to bloom for as many as six months of the year - starting in fall and surviving through winter and on to early spring.

Night Temperatures

There is a lot going for pansies as they grow well during the fall months when night temperatures are on the lower side and they will even survive when temperatures dip to just two degrees in the cold winter months. The best aspect to choosing pansies for a fall flower garden is that they provide you with every color in the rainbow and this includes pansies with nice faces as well as pansies that come with vibrant colors as well as which grow to different heights - all of which will ensure a more beautiful fall flower garden.

Some pansies only grow to at most two and a half inches while others can grow to as high as four and a half inches and the former variety will endure even the hottest temperatures in your fall flower garden while the larger sized ones are not so versatile.

It is also necessary to ensure that you plant your pansies in the right location in your fall flower garden and choose also to include soil that drains well and there needs to also be plenty of sunshine available though there should also be adequate amount of shade available as well.

Also, when planting pansies in your fall flower garden makes sure to plant them at a greater depth which should not be of less than six to eight inches and also don't make the mistake of covering the stems. After planting, also ensure that the surface beds are covered with pine or wheat straw or even pine bark after which you should provide sufficient amount of water to keep the pansies growing continuously.

A vegetable garden is another wonderful option and one that will suit anyone that wishes to cook their meals with homegrown vegetables. Such gardens can prove to be especially handy in climates such as those found in the warm and rather milder climates of California.